Word: bungalows
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...disaster. The theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic stature by Laurel and Hardy, is the starting point for an excerpt from their pie-in-the-face epic Battle of the Century. Whether dangling from the girders of an unfinished skyscraper, flattening a bungalow as they build it, or luring a horse onto a grand piano, they are pluperfect clowns...
When revolt struck Djakarta last week, it seemed appropriate that President Sukarno was in the company of a lovely woman. He was with Morning Star, his most recent wife, a 26-year-old former Japanese bar hostess. Sukarno had left Merdeka Palace to visit her brown-walled bungalow for dinner beneath dozens of Indonesian statues. As the meal ended, word came of a military uprising in the city. Dismissing his motorcade, Sukarno summoned a helicopter and was lifted up into the night sky-and for four days, the flamboyant, hard-living leader of a nation of 104 million...
...Ohio inventor and philanthropist, who in 1911 patented the first practical automobile shock absorber, netted nearly $10 million selling the device to Detroit's automakers before he sold his company to Otis & Co., investors, for $4,000,000 in 1925, whereupon he retired to a $3,500 bungalow on Lake Erie, emerging in 1952 to host a huge dinner party at which he distributed $3,879,700 to 16 charitable and educational Cleveland organizations because "too many institutions get their money from dead men"; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Bellevue, Ohio...
...Scilly Isles, off the Cornwall coast, all was serene in the cozy bungalow where plump, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Harold Wilson relaxed with his family, now and then paddling a boat in and out of rocky coves. Wilson had good reason for contentment. During his six-month stewardship of Britain he had weathered a series of crises that would have shipwrecked a lesser man and brought down many a stronger government. To the surprise of many, Wilson was still Prime Minister, though he had only four votes to spare - the narrowest margin in this century...
...Boat & Bungalow. Stratton did not testify, but in the transcript of an interview with IRS agents, read to the jury, he said that he would "probably find $1,000 or $2,000 in Christmas and birthday cards, some of it from people you never even heard of." And regarding money that he deemed political contributions, he denied converting it to his personal use. Said Stratton: "I wouldn't say it would be mine in the sense that I could use it for my personal benefit. I could use it for promotion or to enhance my political career...